Well, if that's really the case then this is less of a "Winter" release, and more of a "when we get to it" release. That would be disappointing, as it opens the possibility of this happening again for features that we'd actually want to have straight away!

I think it goes to show how unexciting this winter release is given that most of the discussion here is around a topic that's not even part of the winter release! As Greg mentioned, this was announced here back in December: Naming Convention Update

I have to agree here. Now that these only happen four times a year, the expectation is that these would contain significant, innovative features/enhancements (ideally inspired from some of the most popular IDEAS submitted) or at least hit on some of the core missing features that have been highlighted in this thread: Just do it! Marketo so-called minor missing features. Thanks Grégoire Michel

But then again, perhaps Marketo is saving some of this to announce at Summit.

And yes, Dory, these were pushed live this weekend. Odd that you didn't receive an email from Cheryl a couple weeks ago (received on Feb. 22).

I think what also might be contributing so some of this frustration is due to all of the announcements, emails, etc. that went out last week around Project Orion. Many of us are still unclear of what the migration path looks like and hear of any customers that have been moved to this enhanced architecture who are experiencing the performance increases that Orion is said to bring.

And another point is that, despite all the promising vision, many clients use Marketo first to run and automate campaign and tasks. For them, the first ROI is the time saved on doing things and the capability given to Marketing to do more with the same resources.

Hi Tim Madel. If you haven't seen it, you may want to listen to the recording of Steve Lucas' webinar to all customers and partners, which was held on the 15th, as he spends a fair bit of time talking about Marketo's product innovation going forward.